Google’s contribution to the betterment of web technologies are endless. The company has been pushing HTML5 forward in a big way with its conferences and other open source technologies. But today, Google is going one step ahead with its new Boilerplate for the web developers, called Web Starter Kit.
The new initiative by Google will give the developers to build websites faster than ever with the structure that the company believes are the best practices for modern web. Also, the boilerplate has been optimised for performance and for multiple devices.
The Boilerplate also supports other modern browsers like IE10 and Safari, other than the company’s own Chrome. But if you are a developer already, you might have already heard about other starter kits like HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap. At this point, there is no big feature that would make you rush into using Google’s Web Starter Kit. When we tried, our team felt that this is just another Boilerplate that is out on the internet.
One interesting thing about Google’s Web Starter Kit is that, it is pretty easy to use the boilerplate with existing projects that you have been working on. The effort is very minimal.
Currently, the project is still in early stages, and we are not sure what Google is trying to do with this new initiative to push the developers for multi-device ready websites. We might hear something from the company in the days to come, at the Google I/O 2014 conference in San Francisco.
If you are keen in trying the boilerplate out, head straight to this link, and you will find yourself in a beta project that Google released a week before its I/O Conference.